I Stopped Building Blindly: My AI-Powered War Room

I still remember the sinking feeling of launching my last project.

Six months of late nights. Thousands of lines of clean, beautiful code. A UI I was genuinely proud of. I pushed it live, posted it everywhere, and waited. Silence.

No users. No feedback. And definitely no revenue.

I stared at my monitor and realized the hard truth: I am a great builder, but I am a terrible validator.

I had fallen in love with the solution before I even understood the problem. I was building in a vacuum, relying on my own bias. I needed a co-founder—someone to look me in the eye and say, “This is a waste of time,” or “Here is how you actually make money from this.”

But good co-founders are rare, and consultants are expensive. So, I decided to build a digital “War Room” inside my terminal.

I developed a custom skill for Claude Code, but I didn’t just build a single “analyst.” I built a full-scale confrontation pipeline that simulates an entire product team.

It’s not a chatbot, it’s a rigorous 9-step flow split into two opposing forces:

The Advocate (Builders): It starts by acting as my Market Researcher and Product Manager. It runs Market Research, conducts UX Discovery, builds Financial Models, and even generates the PRD. It tries its best to prove the idea will work.

The Critic (Destroyers): Then, the persona switches. The Devil’s Advocate enters the chat. It takes all that research and tries to shred it. It looks for legal risks, competitor moats, and reasons why users won’t pay.

The Debate & Verdict: Finally, the agents “debate” the findings. Only after this stress test do I get a Final Verdict.

This system solves the one problem I always struggled with: Blind Optimism. It literally tells me: “The Financial Model looks good, but the User Stories don’t match the Market Research. Pivot here, or you will fail.” I turned my coding assistant into a relentless validation machine.

For the first time in my career, I’m not just coding. I’m building with a roadmap to revenue.

Am I the only one who has spent months building something that never made a dollar?